"Agenda of a symposium that took place at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University on November 17-19, 1977, under the sponsorship of the Institute for Humane Studies, inc."

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / R.M. Hartwell -- A theory of the origin of the state / Robert L. Carneiro -- State and society / Felix Morley -- Freedom, inequality, primitivism and the division of labor / Murray N. Rothbard -- Egalitarianism and empire / William Marina -- The new despotism / Robert A. Nisbet -- Politization and political solutions / Jacques Ellul -- Liberty and law / Giovanni Sartori -- The masses in representative Democracy / Michael Oakeshott -- History as force / Donald M. Dozer -- Official history / Herbert Butterfield -- The monstrosity of government / John A. Lukacs -- The guaranteed economy and its future / Jonathan R.T. Hughes -- Violence as a product of imposed order / Butler D. Shaffer -- Kinds of order in society / F.A. Hayek

541 pages ; 24 cm

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